Belkin F5D7230uk4 54Mbps Broadband Wireless Router

The Belkin F5D7230uk4 54Mbps Broadband Wireless Router
is for those who have a Cable broadband connection. If you have an ADSL
broadband connection, your first router is here: ADSL
Wirless Routers.

Use with: Belkin F5D7050uk 54Mbps USB
2.0 Wireless G Adapter:

Review

Setting up a router for use with Cable broadband can be a tricky affair.
This is because your cable provider will have the address of your ethernet
card. This is unique, so you can't just plug your cable modem in to
the router and expect it to work. You need something called MAC Address
spoofing. This is when the router pretends to be your ethernet card.
Belkin claim to have you up and running with this router in under 3
minutes. Which is a big plus point!

For those users with children in the house, the Belkin F5D7230uk4 wireless
router comes with Parental Control settings. This is built in to the
router, and you get a free 6 months trial. You can set which web sites
or services you don't want the kids accessing, so as to minimize the
harmful material they may come across.

Performance is excellent, too, with a good signal up to 25 metres.
With all wireless routers, though, the farther you are away, the more
the signal quality drops. When used with a Belkin USB adaptor, you can
still surf the internet at the longer distances.

Another plus point is that this router supports Apple OS 8.x to 10.x
and some Linux boxes (Ubuntu users should be OK).